As a bright star shone in the sky, three wise Daves made their way to the Spiders Web for North East Lincolnshire MAG’s Christmas party.

The men, being wise, had cunningly disguised themselves as St Trinian’s schoolgirls so they could fulfil their mission without arousing suspicion. Their mission (which they chose to accept) was to drink the bar dry and by all accounts I think they succeeded, with a little help from their friends.

The party was a mix of fancy dress and the usual attire with people and things boogying to the disco or just flailing their arms in time to the music. Richard the Lionheart - who would’ve won the long distance award if we’d had one - risked rust poisoning from his chain mail when he popped out into the cold, wet night to plan a new crusade and have a fag. Beetlejuice – a worthy contender for best fancy dress if we’d had a competition - was probably still trying to jet wash the make-up off his face as I wrote this 12 hours later. A perfectly timed appearance by Jimmy Saville enabled him to present the one prize of the evening, the 2007 Shandy Pants award. Riff Raff was the victor of this bravely fought battle, falling asleep at a very disrespectful time of 8:10pm at the Yorkshire Pudding rally. To prove this wasn’t a one-off, he put in another good effort at Wozwolf 2007 as well. Don’t worry Riff Raff, I’ve asked Santa for a spare liver for you for Christmas.

We imported Southern Sue for the night to sell tickets and draw the raffle which raised a fantastic £159 for the Lincolnshire Air Ambulance, a very worthy cause and one which is reliant entirely upon the generosity of the public and sponsors to keep it going (but don’t get me started on the injustice of that…).

Thanks to everyone for helping out, turning out and making this a very successful do!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all

Kit